Systemic Productivity

 

 

An Informal Scoping Review

 

across the span of

 

Origin of Life,

 

Evolutionary Biology,

 

Art and Humanities History

 

& Transdisciplinary Studies 

 

~ Societal Benefits - Science Innovation - Economic Impact ~

 

Note

 

This page is a work in progress. A substantial amount of information is being synthesized into visual info graphs and text to convey the conclusions of this informal scoping review. It is being updated regularly.

Version date: Oct. 23, 2023

 

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Introduction

 

 

This informal scoping review is a broad, surface level assessment of multiple domains of knowledge.

The central conclusion is that the model of the protocell, seen in the origin of life research of space sciences, offers a tangible structure and mechanism of action that can be applied broadly to improve societal benefits.

 

The central theme of this informal scoping review has centered upon the historic progression, seen across the arts and humanities, and the sciences of:

  1. The anatomy and physiology of work, communication and measurement
  2. The effect upon the concept of ‘work’:
    1. An individual’s ability to produce ‘work output’, especially ‘communication work’.
    2. ‘Work’ in biological systems versus machine and technology 'work'.
    3. ‘Work’ in economics and markets; human factors, human capital, transaction costs.
    4. Biological ‘work output’ in health related domains.
  3. The effect upon individual and population health and resilience in the face of stress, trauma, and illness.
  4. Application for innovation and discovery in health and medical arts and sciences.

 

The result of the informal scoping review is a set of:

  1. Practical skills designed for the average person to support a range of typical human activities: health and wellness, communication and relationship, innovation and creativity, conflict resolution goals

 

  1. Practical skills for academic and science researchers, and specific to biology, health and medical sciences, psychology and mental health, and astrobiology (specifically to origin of life research)

 

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Historic Innovation Wave

 

Biology, Anatomy and Physiology, and Communication

 

It is proposed that this scholarship contributes to the understanding of a multi-century innovation wave regarding the anatomy and physiology of work, communication and measurement.  This is distinct from the trends in the technology of information and communication seen over a similar time scale.

 

It is proposed that the biological, anatomy and physiology based innovation wave has lagged behind the technology innovation wave (radio, television, satellite, computers, cell phones, etc.)  because biology is more complex and mysterious than engineering technology.

 

Therefore, it is concluded that an opportunity has been identified to clarify and elevate real, existing principles of human biology to contribute to societal benefits and economic impact.

  

The gap between the innovation wave in technology versus biology is seen in a gap in concepts at the root of academic disciplines.

 

This means that real world events of human biology and anatomy and physiology are poorly described in academic concepts.

 

It is proposed that social and cultural behaviors that contribute to societal costs (illness, education, conflict, and more) are reflected by the absence (or profoundly undervalued) of a key concept relating to biological work output in the academic framework.

 

Consequently, establishing the academic concepts regarding the domain of biological work sets in motion societal behaviors to reduce the observed socieatal costs.

 

An initiative is proposed to ignite these potential benefits.

 

 

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The Protocell Model as a Systemic Solution

 

It is proposed that the fragmentation and lack of integration relating to the principles of biological work seen across society and academia can be improved by incorporating the fundamental concepts of the protocell, as seen in NASA funded astrobiology research on the origin of life.

 

Arising from the principle of ‘conservation’, selected elements from the primordial protocell model offers a perspective and an approach to system integration and fundamental processes of work, measurement and communication.  It is proposed that these principles can improve efficiency across scale and help to reduce the fragmentation seen in society and academia that arise from the fragmented role of human biology.

 

 

 

 

A Model Protocell

Credit: Janet Iwasa, Szostak Laboratory, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital

See: National Science Foundation Protocell Summary

 

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Stardust and Protocell Conservation to

Human Anatomy and Physiology and Academic Disciplines  

 

Via the principle of 'Conservation', the selected structure and mechanisms of action of the primordial  protocell model are a significant foundation for a broad array of subsequent principles within the transdisciplinary spectrum of academia, arts and sciences, including:

  • Measurement
  • Communication
  • Information
  • Work output principles in biology versus mechanical/technology work output in engineering
  • Anatomy and physiology principles
  • Attention regulation
  • Principles of memory
  • Intelligent biological membranes
  • The concept of an instrument
  • The philosophy and anatomy and physiology of expression – from stardust across chemical, biological and physical scale to emotional and psychological states.

 

It is proposed that all arts and humanities, academic and intellectual pursuits can be distilled to these fundamental protocell properties.

 

As we are stardust, we also arise from the protocell.

 

Therefore, understanding the protocell, and how it is represented in the current internal human anatomy and physiology is a principle and a skill that has broad implications for many human endeavors - for both the average person and the academic researcher.

  

  

The following info graphics presents a broad progression of concepts from a stardust ontology to academic disciplines.  

 

 

Central Points are:

  

  • This informal scoping review suggests that major portions of society are adversely effected by the inefficiency in the understanding of human anatomy and physiology (healthcare, education, economic principles).  incorporating the simple, underlying principles of teh protocell into social and institutional education can improve societal benefits.
  • * That the protocell is the foundation for all principles of work, measurement, and communication in human anatomy and physiology, and they are conserved across evolutionary progression to the modern human. 

 

  • * The bilateral classification of human physiology is in complete, if not inaccurate.    a bilateral-radial quadrant model of anatomy and physiology, more accurately reflects the protocell and observed real structures of teh human body.   This is proposed as a more accurate description of human physiology, influencing fundamental principles of human endeavors, from medicine, healthcare, education, to scientific research in all domains of biology.

 

  • * Exploration is a function of anatomy and physiology; the feet for travel, the hands for grasping the material world and creating tools and technology machine, the brain for its many forms of exploration.

 

  • * Organizing the progression around the anatomy and physiology of precision communication and measurement.

 

  • * The concept of instrument and device both arise from anatomy and physiology and can be used to describe biological work output or machine work output.

 

  • * Identifying distinctions between principles of biological work versus machine work. This is proposed as a helpful construct to understand the culture of science, and the culture of measurement across academic disciplines.

 

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Image 1: Conservation & Progression

 

from Stardust and Protocell

 

to Academic Disciplines

 

Draft Image: work in progress. October, 2023

 

  


 

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Image 2: Concept Gap in Basic Sciences

 

The scoping review identified a gap in basic science concepts between physical and biological sciences. 

 

It is proposed the real events in the world are not adequately reflected in academic concepts of 'work', 'measurement' and 'communication'.

 

This concept gap is illustrated in the following diagram, Interogenesis Framework.

 

See link:   Interogenesis- The Principle

 

 

 

 

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Proposed Magnitude of Benefits

 

 of the Scoping Review

 

~ Draft Outline ~

 

 

 Expand 'Methods, Anatomy & Physiology,

 

Communication and Information Theory'

 

in Astrobiology Decadal Report.

  

 

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Proposed Contribution to Health and Medical Education:

 

1850 to Present.

~Draft~

 

 

Clues from art and humanities history since 1850’s to present, plus historical art illustrations of human physiology since antiquity, suggest that the simple protocell model can enhance medical edcuaiotn, healthcare in general, thus providing societal benefits. 

 

This suggests trends in the culture of modern science, which reveal blindspots and opportunities, which have impact upon science discovery and output.

 

The 1910 Flexner Report on Medical Education provided significant positive transformation to medical education in the United States.  Yet, it is proposed, that In light of progress seen in the areas of the arts and humanities since the mid 1800’s,  that the transition in medical education post-Flexner undervalued an important component of anatomy and physiology.  That component, substantiated by the protocell model proposes practical benefits to health and medical education.

 

Consequently, it is proposed that a portion of current inefficiencies and costs in the healthcare system in the United States can be traced to the current model of human anatomy and physiology, utilized in medical education (the bilateral category of the human body).

 

           

See:

The Flexner Report ― 100 Years Later

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3178858/

 

  

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Art History and Illustration of

 

Medical/Anatomy and Physiology;

 

Clues from Antiquity, the Middle Ages

 

and the Modern Era.

~Draft~

 

Scattered evidence from antiquity through to the middle ages, then into the modern era/scientific revolution offers clue that the foundation protocell model has become fragmented.  The authentic, original nature of the Protocell are conserved across evolution to the modern human – yet forces of culture have shaped its expression.

 

This suggests trends in the culture of modern science, which reveal blindspots and opportunities, which have impact upon science discovery and output.

 

Specifically, there is a documented phenomenon of cultural art in Europe during the middles ages (approximately 1200/1300 to 1500/1700’s) that, based upon the interpretation of this scholarship, represents the underlying protocell origins of human anatomy and physiology.

 

It is proposed that this cultural phenomena suggests a cultural philosophy oriented towards systems biology and principles of the protocell model of anatomy and physiology.  Subsequent cultural progression leading towards the scientific revolution in Europe, it is proposed, tended the population towards principles of the central nervous system and the brain.

 

It is proposed that the cultural forces of the scientific revolution fragmented and derailed the development of the protocell artistic expression of human anatomy and physiology.

 

It is proposed that the cultural forces of the 1910 Flexner Report on Medical Education further fragmented and derailed the development of the protocell artistic expression of human anatomy and physiology.

 

Clues in the arts and humanities over the Modern Era ( from the beginning of the Scientific Revolution)) continue to demonstrate attempts by artists  to express the underlying , authentic expression of the protocell model and its natural efficiency.

 

Conclusions from NASA funded research in astrobiology (Bruce Damer) show the simplicity of the protocel model.

 

This scholarship (Lappin) proposes to integrate these artistic and scientific trends to restore the simplicity of the protocell as an explanatory tool to benefits a broad range of human activities.

 

The simple foundation of selected components of the structure and mechanism of action of the protocell can help to correct these inefficiencies and provide societal benefits.

 

 

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Art History Contribution to Economics and

 

The Great Depression of 1929

 

Key point: This section of research to included to demonstrate that the principles of human communication have opportunity f0r significant improvement, to the degreee of large scale economic events.

 

Conclusion:

 

Clues from art history suggest that a set of somatic, anatomy and physiology principles exists that are parallel concept to Monetary Theory.  They are the anatomy and physiology principles at the root of connects of money, markets and exchange. These anatomy and physiology concepts can be utilized to support market stability and efficiency, recovery from economic shock, general population resilience, health and wellness.  Plus, other related applications.

 

After general review of economic curriculum text, and a detailed assessment  of K-12 economic education curriculum published by the National Council of Economic Education, it was concluded that real world phenomena relating to the anatomy and physiology of human communication, were under represented with the curriculum, compared to their actual role in market transactions and market function. (mid 1990’s)

 

This curriculum gap was brought to the attention of Gary Becker, Professor of Economics, Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences (1992), The University of Chicago. 

Over several in -person conversation, Prof,. Becker commented that the insights relating to the underlying anatomy and physiology of economic concepts were (at that time, mid 1990’s)) new and unheard of.

 

In 2010, these principles were brought to the attention of Professor James Heckman, Professor of Economics and Law, noble Prize in Economic Sciences (2000), The University of Chicago.  He expressed notable interest in these proposed principles and has remained in communication regarding them.

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